Sarah Fossheim

If your government is setting up concentration camps then you're the bad guys. It's remarkable that even needs saying in the 21st century.

90% pics on this platform without alt text, happy #DisabilityPrideMonth y'all

i’m pretty sick of the world the computer guys have made

Big white tailed eagle sitting on lichen covered rocks, in front of the ocean. The eagle has mostly brown plumage, with white/beige feather tips. The head is mostly white with brown spots, and the tail (which is mostly hidden behind a rock) is white as well. The beak and feet are bright yellow/orange.

went out for a dog walk around town, met a cute small birdy

Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' Executive Julia Liuson recently told Microsoft managers to include internal AI tool usage when evaluating employee performance.

Microsoft is asking managers to consider usage of AI tools in performance reviews and is considering formal metrics around AI tool usage.

I don’t think usage of any tool, no matter how useful, has ever been a requirement to get a good performance review during my career. This is weird.

The status, threats and conservation of Critically Endangered species - Nature Reviews Biodiversity Species classified as Critically Endangered are at greatest risk of extinction, and their preservation and recovery are crucial to meeting global biodiversity aims. This Review assesses the geographic...

New paper reviewing the world's 10,443 Critically Endangered species: their status, distribution threats and the actions needed for their recovery
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

We do have midnight sun until the end of July though, when she’s not hidden by clouds ⛅️

Weekly weather forecast showing temperatures between 5°C and and 9°C, almost always cloudy, and wind up to 9m/s.

Summer 😌

A shouting black-legged kittiwake standing on top of a statue that’s meanwhile completely covered in kittiwake poop.

A red wooden building that’s falling apart, missing planks some places and paint scratched off on others, where there’s a big “make the north great again” sign, on which there’s a lot of kittiwakes nesting. There’s also a lot of kittiwake nests on the ledges of one of the boarded off windows. There’s also a poster hanging saying “fiskeridiktaturet, depresjon Finnmark” with an illustration of a mermaid pushing away two dead fish on it.

Moved to Vardø earlier this month, loving it so far ❤️

Dataviz Accessibility Workshop — Online Workshops "Ever handed off this fantastic design to development and wasn’t quite so happy (putting it politely) when seeing it in the browser? Do you have some experience with designing but don’t know how to se...

Excited to announce that I’m hosting a Smashing Workshop on dataviz accessibility this autumn!

Spread over 5 sessions, we’ll cover #DatavizA11Y fundamentals, and how to test, document, design, and develop accessible charts 📈

#accessibility #dataviz

Info & tickets:
smashingconf.com/online-works...

Screenshot of the weather app, showing it’s currently 1AM, 11°C and sunny. The hourly weather forecast between 1am and 6am shows sun, and temperatures between 10°C and 12°C. The daily weather forecast predicts mostly sunny, between 9°C and 15°C.

Back under the midnight sun ☀️

Sarah L. Fossheim I'm an experienced independent developer, designer and educator. I specialize in building accessible and inclusive products, and have a particular focus on dataviz accessibility.

If you’re looking for actionable dataviz/web accessibility reviews, consulting or training, I have some availability opening up from October onwards 💪🏻

And! The work will be done from an island at 70°N, surrounded by whales, 100.000s of birds, and a lot of weather 💨🌊

Interested?

DM or fossheim.io

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

This is how fights start.
Stop using divs to make buttons and links.

If it changes the URL in any way, use an <a>.

If a fuction is called that doesn't change the URL, use a <button>

Our drive up north has started 😱

moving out: done ✅

tomorrow the (looong) drive to our new place starts, and then from next week onwards we'll be living in the northernmost part of Norway 🐋☀️

Earlier this year I had a @smashingconf.com meets talk about dataviz accessibility and several people in the audience asked if there were any workshops, so I’m very excited we could actually make it happen 🤩

Dataviz Accessibility Workshop — Online Workshops "Ever handed off this fantastic design to development and wasn’t quite so happy (putting it politely) when seeing it in the browser? Do you have some experience with designing but don’t know how to se...

Excited to announce that I’m hosting a Smashing Workshop on dataviz accessibility this autumn!

Spread over 5 sessions, we’ll cover #DatavizA11Y fundamentals, and how to test, document, design, and develop accessible charts 📈

#accessibility #dataviz

Info & tickets:
smashingconf.com/online-works...

if pigeons can survive in a cold world that despises them then so can you

Don't mess with zooming on a website.
Don't mess with scrolling on a website.
Don't mess with default cursors on a website.
Don't mess with the default Tab order.
Don't mess with the back button in the browser.
Thank you.

I cannot stress to you enough how genuinely important this part of our care and feeding instructions is.

One response to my critique of Figma (and Figma Sites):

“Any good designer would look into the accessibility and wait to use it.”

I asked why they felt comfy holding individuals to that standard, but not a large company with infinitely more resources.

Didn’t get an answer.

code screenshot from the inspector: div with the link role, tabindex 0, and href, inside of it 4 nested divs. The lowest nested div has an aria-label "contact us", and text "contact u" with a span containing the s. Something like code sample: <div role="link" tabindex="0" href="..."><div><div><div><div aria-label="CONTACT us">CONTACT u<span>s</span></div></div></div></div></div>

in 2014 after I started working in tech designers started saying that one day in the next few years design tools would publish websites and front-end devs would become obsolete.

11 years later, code by figma sites:

Currently in the south of the country taking a course in something that will hopefully let me combine bird and data nerding: bird ringing 🐦‍⬛💍

First class starts before 6am tomorrow 😵‍💫

Some people may be unable to use a mouse, and instead rely exclusively on keyboards, or use assistive technologies such as speech recognition, head pointers, mouth sticks, or eye-gaze tracking systems. If a website is accessible only to mouse users, these people will be excluded.

I love calatheas for this 💚 I have four and I've grown so attached to them because of how much life their movements bring the room, it's so cute to see them go to sleep for the night 🥰 Definitely planning on getting more of them

Speechless... I'm so sorry to hear this 💜

we’re moving to the other side of the country in two months, so we’re selling our home in center Grünerløkka. If you’re in #Oslo and looking to buy (or think you know someone who is), let me know and I’ll forward the link 💪🏻

2 bedroom, balcony, separate kitchen, large bathroom, 70sqm floorspace.

YouTube video by Data Visualization Society Accessibility Fireside Chat

Woahh!! @ashleemboyer.com just let me know that an accessibility and visualization fireside chat (below, 2021) I was a participant in (with the legends @amycesal.com, Øystein Moseng, @fossheim.bsky.social, and @tink.uk) was cited and quoted in @merbroussard.bsky.social's book "More than a Glitch."